Due to the ever increasing system complexity, deciding whether a given platform is sufficient to implement a set of applications under given constraints becomes a serious bottlene...
Design decisions for complex, component-based systems impact multiple quality of service (QoS) properties. Often, means to improve one quality property deteriorate another one. In ...
Anne Martens, Danilo Ardagna, Heiko Koziolek, Raff...
Abstract--We introduce SCiFI, a system for Secure Computation of Face Identification. The system performs face identification which compares faces of subjects with a database of re...
Where the Object-Oriented paradigm set about abstracting objects, iented (AO) theory draws on Psychology to abstract mentalist notions like: beliefs, perceptions, goals, and intent...
This paper discusses our experience in building SPIRE, an autonomic system for service provision. The architecture consists of a set of hosted Web Services subject to QoS constrain...